Intentional Ambition

Proven strategies for a more intentional and thoughtful approach to your ideal career In Intentional Ambition: Redefining Your Work for Greater Joy, Freedom and Fulfillment, soul coach and visionary career consultant Rha Goddess reveals a proven blueprint, already used by hundreds of breakthrough changemakers, cultural visionaries, and social entrepreneurs, to radically and thrillingly reset your life by renegotiating your relationship to work. Drawing on personal anecdotes from highly successful individuals Rha has worked with across industries and roles, this book delivers strategies to intentionally reconsider what you do, why you do it, and how you do it. Based on Goddess's work with private and small group coaching as well as corporate collaborations with organizations such as Google, Delta, and Lululemon, this book explores topics including: Resigning versus being resigned—intentionally choosing a new path versus letting your environment make your choices for you Raising the standard of renegotiation, where we have a renewed vision for our mental, spiritual, emotional, and financial aspirations Unhealthy compartmentalization of our work and real personalities, leading to painful compromise and internal emotional turmoil Intentional Ambition earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all professionals, no matter where they are in their careers, who know they deserve better and are looking to intentionally plot a more joyful and fulfilling path forward.

Contents Foreword vii Introduction: You See Resignation … I See Renegotiation xi Part I Negotiation 1 1 You Say Career Wall, I Say Life Wall 3 2 Success as Sacrifice: An Unchallenged Story 15 3 When Failure to Succeed Is Almost Guaranteed: Thwarting 27 Part II Resignation 41 4 One Coin, Two Sides: Giving Up vs. Quitting 43 5 The Suck in Success 57 6 Wounded Ambitions and Wounding Ambition 65 Part III Renegotiation 79 7 Reclaiming: Whose Story Is It, Anyway? 81 8 Realigning: The Truth about Getting True 91 9 Reimagining: A More Successful Definition of Success 105 Part IV How to Renegotiate with Yourself 117 10 Changing Your Mindset about Change 119 11 Signing Your Own Permission Slip 131 12 Cultivating Your True Ambition 143 Part V How to Renegotiate with Others 153 13 Setting Up Your Game Plan (and Guardrails) for Reentry 155 14 Coming to the Table Prepared 165 15 Overcoming the Scarcity Scare 177 Part VI How to Renegotiate with the World 187 16 Renegotiating with the World: The “Yeah, But” Chapter 189 17 Who Wins? A Pep Talk to Send You on Your Way 199 Notes 209 Acknowledgments 213 About the Author 217 Index 221